Category Archives: Herbal Remedies

Fibroids can make you very uncomfortable. The pelvic pain they cause and the irregular and painful periods that you experience when you have uterine fibroids may totally change the way you live. This is however nothing compared to the fact that you may be facing the possibility of having to spend the rest of your life without getting pregnant. This is because of the fact that there is a relationship between pregnancy and fibroids, in that women with fibroids are usually prone to experiencing complications in conception or during delivery, especially when the fibroids are large.

Theoretically, uterine fibroids and pregnancy occurring at the same time should not cause any complications. However, there are cases where complications develop especially when the fibroids in the uterus are large in size. In such cases, the fibroids may end up blocking the birth canal and thus preventing the normal passage of your baby during delivery. Studies also show that there is also an increased risk of premature birth and miscarriage in women with uterine fibroids. Being under such risks, with the added discomfort of irregular and painful periods with the occasional bloating of your abdomen, makes it necessary that you seek help at the earliest possible time. This is so because the more you delay in starting treatment for uterine fibroids, the more at risk you will be to experiencing the adverse effects of having them.More Reading ...

Who would have thought that this delicate, feathery plant Feverfew and Migraine Headaches would go hand in hand? As someone who has suffered from them I can attest to the fact that it works. That was the main reason I started growing Feverfew 12 years ago. That one little plant has now spread over many acres into at least a hundred plants. That’s what happens if it goes to seed and the wind scatters the seed.
It grows in my woods and fields where it’s on its own. I don’t water it other than rain water and no fertilizer except what is in the ground, and it flourishes. Feverfew is definitely a no maintenance herb.
Feverfew is also referred to as bachelor’s button, wild quinine, featherfoil, and flirtwort.
Feverfew is masculine and Sagittarius, its planet is Venus, its element is water, and its character is warm, drying, and bitter. Feverfew’s power is protection from colds, fevers, headaches, and accidents.

Feverfew packs a powerful punch with its medicinal properties. It’s not just a pain reducer for migraine headaches. It is an antispasmodic, anti-prostaglandin, vasodilator, laxative, emmenagogue (any drug, herb, or agent that induces or hastens menstrual flow) used to stimulate uterine contractions; relieves dizziness, brain and nerve pressure, increases fluidity of lung and bronchial tube mucus. It’s also used to help alleviate inflammation and discomfort of arthritis and insect bites; helps in relieving flatulence, as a stimulant, and a vermifuge (expels worms).More Reading ...

The term probiotics’ refers to beneficial micro-organisms, normally bacteria, which live in our bodies and assist in the maintenance of health in various ways. These good’ bacteria already live in our bodies but in small numbers and hence cannot maintain a healthy numerical balance. This is because they get eliminated from the body in numerous ways. Our unhealthy living habits such as poor nutrition, stress, pathogens, sleep deprivation have an adverse effect on the beneficial bacteria. Additionally, antibiotics do not discriminate between the good and bad bacteria especially when diarrhea results from using the antibiotics. This results in the ejection of both good and bad bacteria from the intestinal tract.

The best way of ensuring a healthy balance of good bacteria and boost digestive health is to increase consumption of probiotic foods like sauerkraut, yogurt and kefir. However, if this is not possible, it is recommended that you take probiotic supplements. The ever-growing probiotic industry markets a wide range of supplements in various forms like powders, tablets, liquids and capsules. There are myriad manufacturers and copious amounts of information regarding these supplements, hence choosing the best supplement for you can be confusing.More Reading ...

There have been a wide variety of alternative treatments for all that ails us over the years, but few have demonstrated the popularity or longevity of the herb known as St. John’s Wort. This plant, which is native to Europe, has been used to treat various illnesses throughout the western world for hundreds of years. The first recorded mention of the plant was in around 290 BC, when a Greek doctor wrote of using it to treat his patients. One of Greece’s most noteworthy herbalists recorded four different subspecies, which he recommended as a treatment for sciatica and as a topical treatment for burns. Others used it to accelerate wound healing, relieve gout, and even exorcise demons.

Today, the plant has fallen out of use in mainstream medicine, but it remains a popular herbal remedy among those interested in alternative or complementary medicine. It is most commonly recommended as a treatment for mild to moderate depression, either on its own (mild) or in conjunction with prescribed antidepressants (moderate). Most of the evidence in favor of St. John’s Wort as a stand-alone treatment for moderate to severe depression is anecdotal, and though there are a handful studies that have demonstrated the drug’s potential, two of the biggest and most well-known experiments found that it did not perform any better than the placebo. It should also be noted that the pharmaceutical drugs in the experiment had the same results– they were equal to the placebo when it came to alleviating depressive symptoms.More Reading ...

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